News & Reviews:   Radeon

It was just yesterday when we saw some AMD news. The company suggested that prices for its new Radeon RX 6800 series GPUs would normalise in 4 to 8 weeks. But maybe Gigabyte will be bringing them in soon, as the company has announced that it's bringing in Radeon RX 6800 GPUs to Malaysia.

AMD has recently unveiled the Radeon RX 6000 series, which consists of the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, as well as the RX 6800, which are all built using the AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture and they’re priced at 579USD (~RM2406), 649USD (~RM2697), and 999USD (~RM4152) respectively. With that in mind, the RX 6900 XT and the RX 6800 XT are able to achieve clock speeds of up to 2250MHz, while the RX 6800 is capable of achieving up to 2105MHz.

Back then, if you were keen on getting a laptop that has good performance and battery efficiency, you’d have to go for laptops that typically cost more than RM3000. But thanks to AMD who recently released their new Ryzen 4000 series processors, they’ve managed to drive down laptop prices to a much more affordable level while maintaining adequate performance and battery life.

With that said, Acer recently unveiled the Swift 3 which is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 4500U processor with Radeon Graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD for the price of only RM2599. Let’s have a closer look at the performance of the Swift 3 and see what kind of workloads this laptop is suitable.

We previously got some news that AMD could be adding a new feature to its software suite. That news has now been confirmed by AMD with the release of the new AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition. The software suite comes with a brand new UI and features, including the Radeon Boost feature.